[Haskell-cafe] Cabal and Strings and CPP
Philip Weaver
philip.weaver at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 18:02:21 EDT 2008
Hello all,
I'm trying to use CPP-defined strings in a Haskell module, like this:
main :: IO ()
main = putStrLn FOO
This of course will not work:
ghc -DFOO="hello world" --make Main.hs -o test
You'll get this error message:
./Main.hs:6:16: Not in scope: `hello'
./Main.hs:6:22: Not in scope: `world'
Either of these will do what I want:
ghc -DFOO="\"hello world\"" --make Main.hs -o test
ghc -DFOO='"hello world"' --make Main.hs -o test # (that's double quotes
inside single quotes)
However, passing the same CPP definition via cabal does not work.
runhaskell Setup.hs build --ghc-options=-DFOO="\"hello world\""
runhaskell Setup.hs build --ghc-options=-DFOO='"hello world"'
With either of these commands, I get the same error message as above. This
is understandable, since cabal has to evaluate the string before sending it
to GHC, so I lose my escaped quotes.
Any idea how I could change the Haskell module or the command line argument
so that I get what I want? I've tried many combinations of quotes and
escaped quotes with no luck.
Thanks,
- Phil
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